Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1887-07-07


port pleasant time.
Mat WiXom's great show passed
through town on Tuesday, and showed
at Brockway in the evening.
John Rath. former Brockway Cen
tire boy. visited his father and brother
in this place OH the Fourth.
The work on the new school building
is at StandStill on account Of some
trouble among the Workmen.
Henry IIoway, who is working at his
trade in Saginaw visited with his fam
lily in this place on the Fourth.
Anson Gunsolus, of Bolivar, Ohio
was visiting among relatives anC
friends in this place the past week.
Miss Ada Duilie and a young lady
friend from Port Huron, were guests
Of Mr.. and Mrs. G. :. Ney on the 18th.
CT. Michaels' dance was Il complete
success, $50 numbers being sold. The
best time they ever had was the verdict
of all.
Henry DIvall and family, of Bay
City, were the guests of JOS. Duvall
and other friends i'll these parts the
past week.
Miss Nellie Sterling, of Mt. Pleasant,
is the guest of Mr.. and Mrs. James
Brown and other friends in the village
at present.
\ large number of soldier "boys"
from this place attended the reunion
at Port Huron last week and report a
very enjoyable time.
Geo. X. Vincent. graduate of the
Port Huron Business College, and
now teacher in said institution.
spent the Fourth among friends in this
place.
James Brown informs us that he
will make the last call in the interest of
the =. q. Welch & Son subscription this
week. Take due notice and be prepared
to meet the demand.
Don Macarthur was home on a visit
the fourth. They were obliged to stop
work on the new telephone line this
side of Sand Beach on accoudt of their
supply of poles being exhausted.
The strawberry festival, given by the
Ladies Aid of the NJ. p. church. for the
benefit of Rev. j. NJ. Crandall. last
Thursday evening, was not so well at
tended as was anticipated, although q
very pleasant and sociable time was
experienced 10y all present. The total
amount realized was 500.
In the issue of November ~. 1886.
an article appeared which stated that
Elmer Smith. of BrOckway. stole Cal
vim Russell's team of horses out of his
barn. At the examination before JUS
tice Cowing few weeks ago. it was
proven that Elmer did not steal the
horses and was therefore honOrably
discharged.
"The work of the Republican party"
says Mr. Sherman, ''is but fairly begun"
What are we to have more trade dol
lars, more Freemen'S banks, more star
routes, more Credit Mobiler. more rot
ten navies, more presidential hocuspo-
cuses, more tariff robbery, more strikes
and more devilment all around. than
we were accustomed to before 1884 ?
Manhattan Mercury.
Frank Tenniswood and Miss Imo J.
Hooper, of Speaker, met with q serious
accident on the 4th. While riding in a
buggy together and enjoying the plea
sure of running horses with another
couple, were capsized and thrown on
the hard road. Miss Hooper receiving
broken arm and Mr.. Tenniswood q
shoulder out of joint. We should
think that examples have already been
set, sufficient to warn others against in
dulging in this dangerous pastime. \
Mr.. Presley was run over by another
team and received severe cash in the
chin.
Our village officers now have an ex-
cellent chance to prosecute the liquor
sellers here-they having all kept open
doors Oh the fourth. There would be
no excuse this time about building
fires to keep their families warm. The
jury might disagree and allow them to
continue to build fires within those
who indulge in their intoxicants. For
the sake of our homes and suffering
humanity let us, as far as possible, ban
ish this accursed traffic from our midst
by making those who deal out the
deadly poison. live up to the letter of
the law.
Johnston's Extract of Sarsaparilla.-
1t were but courtesy to call the atten-
ton of our readers to the invaluable
preparation which will be found adj
vertised in another column. 1t has in
its favor very flattering testimonials
from the most eminent practitioners in
every part of the country where it has
been used. There is beauty, taste and
size enough in the bottle to induce pur-
chase, even if the preparation itself
were not one of the "sovereignest in
the world" as every one must believe
it is-that is, every one who would not
resist a mess of documentary evidence
conclusive enough to convert Turk
to Christianity, Buy one of the bottles
gentle reader and see whether you do
not agree with us, on this latter point
at least.
There is no enterprise or business
that does as much to build up and in
crease the prosperity of any cOmmuni-
ty as well as sustained and literally
patronized localIpaper. The metropoli-
tan journals gives you greater amount
of the daily transactions of the world
and more speedily than your own home
paper. But it is in the columns of the
local newspaper that all matters OF
special interest pertaining to the well
fare and prosperity of your locality
are found. And it is to the same
source that you look for weekly his.
tory of the business of the community
IN which you reside. The time has
long since passed when people depend.
ed mainly on their own county or town
paper TO give the general news of what
is transpiring in different quarters of
the globe. The daily and large city
weeklies have long since supplied that
need. and the sphere of the local paper
has been correspondingly curtailed, but
for this very reason its usefulness has